Prydie’s too good for all this time in the shadows

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Tom Prydie arrived at ‘Heart and Soul Rugby Country’ last summer hoping to find a way back to the promised land of the Test arena. He had been there once upon a time, thrown in at the deep end a few days after turning 18 which made him the youngest Welsh cap of all time and the youngest picked by any other country since Ireland took 17-year-old Johnny Quirke out of school and played him at scrum-half against England at Twickenham.
Prydie discovered that there is a price to be paid for being picked ahead of his time, even if he did keep h...

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